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Unifor

Unifor is Canada’s largest private sector union, with more than 300,000 members across the country, working in every major sector. Unifor is a result of a merger of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworks (CEP) unions.

Therefore was tasked to rebuild the online presence for the national union, quebec union and develop a local union website distribution system. All sites were to be standardized on the Drupal platform.

Unifor is Canada’s largest private sector union, with more than 300,000 members across the country, working in every major sector. Unifor is a result of a merger of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) and Communications, Energy and Paperworks (CEP) unions.

Therefore was tasked with rebuilding the online presence for the national union, Quebec union and develop a local union website distribution system. All sites were to be standardized on the Drupal platform.

Labour day (September 2nd, 2013) was a hard deadline for the launch of both the national and Quebec website. We had just over 4 months to develop both.

The general requirements for the site were to build the site with a CMS, fully bi-lingual, responsive web design, and AODA compliancy to level AA.

Utilizing Agile Scrum develoment, the site was launched successfuly on the launch date.

Why Drupal Was Chosen:

Drupal was chosen partially based on it's historical success within the government and political space. Drupal is strong in on accessibility, multi-lingual and it's ability to be flexible and scalable.

The reason we decided to use singularity is because we needed very high levels of responsive customization. It's best summarized by singulatiry's github page:

Singularity is a next generation grid framework built from the ground up to be responsive. What makes Singularity different? Well, a lot of things. Singularity is based on internal ratios instead of context based which allows for better gutter consistency across breakpoints. Ratio based math also allows for non-uniform grids inany unit you want to use.

The aurora theme is a clean slate from which we can build from. It removes all 'Drupalisms' from the markup.

Therefore Interactive is a digital firm located in Toronto that specializes in responsive web design, cross device content accessibility and open source technologies. We are experts in building mission critical Drupal implementations.
Our 20 person team is a fusion of digital strategists, UX/UI designers and developers. Our goal is to bring as much value and meaning to the work we do for our clients as possible. We pride ourselves on being easy to work with, creative thinkers and experts in what we do.
Therefore sponsors the Toronto Drupal Camp at the platinum level and is in regular attendance at Drupalcon in both the America's and Europe.